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Triablogue: Does the unbelief of Jesus' brothers support Mary's perpetual virginity?
I recently heard somebody make that claim.
Triablogue: Baptismal Regeneration As A Gateway To Other Forms Of Justification Through Works
Adding baptism to faith makes it easier to add other things.
Triablogue: The Evidence From Origen Against Prayer To Saints And Angels
The mainstream view during the Biblical era and among the earliest extrabiblical sources was that we should pray only to God, not to saints ...
Triablogue: What if the brothers of Jesus were younger cousins?
My last post discussed some evidence for the consistency and historicity of what the New Testament reports about the siblings of Jesus.
Triablogue: Some Agreements Among The New Testament Documents About Jesus' Siblings
I've been discussing the perpetual virginity of Mary in some of my recent posts, and one of the issues I've brought up is how often Jesus' b...
Triablogue: Encouragement Coexisting With Discouragement
Paul refers to how opposites often coexist, such as joy and sorrow existing together (2 Corinthians 6:10, 7:4).
Triablogue: The Suspicious Early Silence About Later Marian Dogmas
In a recent post , I discussed some of the evidence against concepts like Mary's perpetual virginity, sinlessness, and assumption.
Triablogue: Baptismal real presence?
We're frequently told that we should hold a highly efficacious view of baptism or the eucharist because the church fathers and other pre-Ref...
Triablogue: An Easy Way To Date Opposition To Mary's Perpetual Virginity Before Helvidius
Advocates of the perpetual virginity of Mary sometimes acknowledge that there was opposition to the concept before Helvidius.
Triablogue: Are Protestants underestimating Mary?
Ben Merritt of Cleave to Antiquity recently produced a video in which he interviewed an eyewitness of the Zeitoun Marian apparitions and con...
Triablogue: Consider The Birds
"For, when the dawn brings forth the breaking day, do we not see the smallest birds in the tiny bedchambers of their nests first proceed to ...
Triablogue: The Importance Of The Wind In John 3
There are a lot of problems with using John 3:5 to support baptismal regeneration.
Triablogue: Holding Skeptics Accountable For Their Claims
One of the implications of what I discussed in my last post is that critics have to pay a price for something like assigning a late date to...
Triablogue: Eyewitnesses Of Acts' Events Living Into The Second Century
We're accustomed to framing timing issues in early Christianity around Jesus' life.
Triablogue: Jesus And The Apostles Emphasized Maturity
For example: "The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with wo...
Triablogue: Was Tertullian the only early opponent of infant baptism?
I often see advocates of infant baptism referring to the history of credobaptism as if Tertullian is the only credobaptist source or the onl...
Triablogue: Did the earliest information about Christianity circulate entirely in oral form?
A post I wrote last week about Josephus was partly about the likelihood that the earliest Jewish opponents of Christianity communicated abo...
Triablogue: Josephus' Potential Sources On Jesus
What's quoted below is from Tom Schmidt's recent book on Jesus in Josephus .
Triablogue: More Pre-Reformation Disagreements Over Baptism And John 3:5
I've written a lot over the years about how diversely John 3:5 was interpreted prior to the Reformation, contrary to the popular suggestion ...
Triablogue: What if men like Papias and Polycarp weren't eyewitnesses of the apostles?
I've argued, in other posts here and elsewhere, that they were. But if they weren't, what would follow?